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BobNicholson |
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July 22, 2010 02:59:59pm |
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Out of copyright book scanned in British library - ok to upload? |
Hi,
I recently scanned an out of copyright book at the British library's St. Pancras reading rooms. I had the permission of the manager, who was satisfied that the book was completely out of copyright.
It's an extremely rare text (only one copy in UK libraries and none online) and I'd like to upload the book to the internet archive. However, I'd like to make sure that I have the necessary permissions to do so first. As I understand it, this shouldn't be a problem - the book was published in 1892 and the author, W. T. Stead, died in 1912 on the Titanic. However, the scan has a British library watermark on each page, and the guidelines on their website suggest that items should not be recopied. Does this change the situation? I'm probably being over cautious, but can somebody confirm that I'm in the clear?
Cheers,
Bob.
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garthus |
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July 22, 2010 08:54:36pm |
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Re: Out of copyright book scanned in British library - ok to upload? |
The book can be uploaded regardless of the watermarks; in the US before 1924 is in the public domain.
Gerry
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prosfilaes |
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July 26, 2010 10:31:15am |
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Re: Out of copyright book scanned in British library - ok to upload? |
It's before 1923; works first published in 1923 were still in their 75th year of protection when the Mickey Mouse Copyright Protection Act extended copyright on everything still under copyright.
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anh Mike |
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July 26, 2010 04:59:53am |
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Re: Out of copyright book scanned in British library - ok to upload? |
A similar discussion on watermarks was discussed in feature films forum, saying that it is legal to remove the watermark on some videos. The book is not copyrighted, so a long it PD its OK.
thanks for the suggest software
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Summus Aristoteles |
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July 26, 2010 05:26:00am |
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Re: Out of copyright book scanned in British library - ok to upload? |
I assume these watermarks are placed directly on images (and raster), if watermarks are vector text (for instance a watermark on all pages in a pdf that serves as container for images) then another tecnique can be used to remove
- take the pdf
- uncompress streams inside (this can be done with pdftk for example:
pdftk input.pdf output uncompressed.pdf uncompress
- now we are looking for text string of watermark (if watermark display "British Library", we will search for "British Library")
this can be done (without directly open the uncompressed pdf) with an editor like sed (in windows and linux both)
sed -e "s/watemark text/ /g" unwatermarked.pdf
now we re-compress the resulting pdf (with pdftk)
pdftk unwatermarked.pdf output compressed.pdf compress
in order to rebuild the XREF table another step is optionally performed
pdftk compressed.pdf output compressedfixed.pdf
if Bob can give us further details can help better
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